She and Arvilly had lots of little spats about matters and things, though Miss Meechim wuz so genteel that she kep' her dignity most of the time, though Arvilly gin it severe raps anon or oftener.
But though it is a pity, pardners have had spats from Eden to Chicago and I d'no but they always will.
The fence wire rings; a twig rattles along the dried limbs of a tree and floats down; something spats against a stone and goes ricocheting away.
One wore a pair of gray spats and the other had one of those artist ties, those black fluffy things.
Then he came across Cullen and Neave, resplendent with white spats and yellow canes.
The more two love, the more they are aggrieved by each other's faults; of which these spats are but the correction.
Love-spats develop into hate-spats, and their effects upon the affections are blighting and should not under any circumstances be tolerated.
Thunderstorms clear the atmosphere and promote vegetation; then why not Love-spats promote love, as they certainly often do?
Love-spats instead of being universal, they are consequent on imperfect love, and only aggravate, never correct errors.
Cleek abstractedly, and then sat silent for a long time staring at his spats and moving one thumb slowly round the breadth of the other, his fingers interlaced and his lower lip pushed upward over the one above.
All he dared do was to unbutton her spats very cautiously, and slip off the little brown suede shoes.
Then she caught sight of her shoes and spats on the floor--looked down at the blankets and covers that had kept her warm.
A broken topper, a pair of plaids, a white waistcoat, and spatsover patents.
Meanwhile the valet pursues the public man about the room with spats and tries to attach them to his person.
If he can attach both spats before the Fish-Friers' man really gets hold of him he has won the game.
Bayard Steele, tappin' one of his pearl-gray spats with his walkin' stick.
When again I raised my eyes furtively to the Frenchman in the white spats I was relieved to find that he had disappeared.
One of them was the man in the white spatswho had been attracted by Madame in the Bois.
Uncle Richard with his high white forehead, his long dark trousers, his grey spats and his great collar that bent back, in humble deference, before the nobility of his neck and chin, Uncle Richard required a great deal of courage.
Grumbling at money she spends for spats And filmy dresses and gloves and hats, Yet wanting her stylishly garbed, and that's "Just like a man!
Illustration: Grumbling at money she spends for spats And filmy dresses and gloves and hats, Yet wanting her stylishly garbed, and that's "Just like a man!
They tripped over Monkey's train and one of the spats came off in the struggle for recovery.
A pair of yellow spats were visible sometimes that spread fan-shaped over her boots and climbed half-way up the fat legs.
His soaped mustaches and white spatsmade him a comic figure at any time, but doubly comic in the rôle of an accusing prophet.
When the adventurous gentleman had clambered down, it was seen that he wore his shabby spats and that his mustaches were pointed with wax.
It was the dirty white spats above his unshone boots that made Peter notice.
He would have forgotten his spats and would have forgotten to twirl his mustaches, if Glory hadn't been at hand to make him jaunty.
A gentleman, very hastily attired, carrying a pair of white spats in his hand, shot out on to the pavement.
Spats were generally worn, and the "mashers" of the 'eighties carried very slim umbrellas when they took their walks abroad in the park for Sunday parade.
Something more important than the angle of a parasol or the wearing of out- of-date spats was engrossing the attention of a group of young men who had just entered.
All the volcano beneath, and only little spats of smoke and dying bits of ashes in evidence!
Once, back in London, Parker had sent him out into the heart of the West End without hisspats and he had not discovered their absence till he was half-way up Bond Street.
The coloured beau, a heavy swell, in spats and a van Bibber overcoat.
Of course I have little spats with him, but Julian isn't a fellow to remember that," said Casper to himself.
I've had spats with every boy, and some of them I don't want anything more to do with.
But nothing was said until the white spats of the committeeman disappeared in the hotel.
But Mr. Heathcote was already on the way to the hotel, his white spats gleaming in the sunshine.
His light overcoat was baggy enough in the back to hold another man, as Mr. Heathcote was not large, and white spats were the final touch of an outfit that made the less sophisticated of the spectators gasp.
The Honorable Herbert sat at the corner of the stage, the white spats still gleaming defiance, his whole appearance, despite recent modifications, showing that he was a strange bird in a strange land.
The white spatshe yet sported, in the face of a belligerent Western democracy, and he paid the full price.
Maybe I'm kind of too brown and outdoors looking to fit withspats and handkerchiefs like this.
Didn't they tell you that that was the style back East, to have spats like that on?
The newcomer's trousers were turned high at the bottom, and the muddy spats he wore looked big and ungainly in consequence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
